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Arnold 119 Arnot (juality, and a very small part of the classical workers in the Punjab. lie is the autlior of portion of it Las alone stood the test of * Oakfield, or FelloAvsliip in the Knst,' a novel ' time. In an article in ' Frasei'*s Magazine in two volumes, published in 1858 under the for February 1853, which was afterwards pseudonym of 'Punjabee.' It depicts the published in pamphlet form, and has been struggles of a young officer of exceptional attributed, correctly, as we believe, to Ur. cultiire and seriousness to elevate the Ioav J. W. Donaldson, the author of the * New tone of the military society about him, and Cratylus,' the attempt was made in very the trials and problems forced upon him by forcible language to throw discredit on the this peculiar form of quixotism. It is well whole of Arnold's classical schoolbooks. But Avritten and deeply interesting, imbued ia the unmeasured vituperation of the criticism, every line with the spirit of the author's il- which attracted considerable attention at lustrious father ; but, as is usually the case- the time, is only very partially justified. In when the ethical element largely predomi- u temperate reply, written a few weeks before nates, is open to the charge of insufficient his death, Arnold successfully rebutted some sympathy with types of character alien from of the more sinister imputations on his cha- the writer's own. He also translated Wiese's ' ' racter introduced into the article ; and he Letters on English Education (1854), and justly remarks, in reference to the miUtipli- published in 1855 four lectures, treating re- city of his works, that ' regular industry Avith spectively of the Palace of Westminster, the a careful division of time and employment, English in India, Caste, and the Discovery carried on, with hardly any exception, for of America. six days in every week, will accomplish a [Prospective Review, x. 274-303 ; information gi-eat deal in fifteen years.' The popularity from Miss Frances Arnold.] E. G. of a few of the books that Donaldson specially denounced has, moreover, survived his fierce ARNOT, HUGO (1749-1786), historical attack, and his Latin and Greek ' Prose Com- writer, was son of a merchant at Leith, where positions,' new editions of which, revised by he was born 8 Dec. 1749. He changed his leading scholars, appeared in 1881, are valued name from Pollock to Arnot on succeeding to highly at the present day by many teachers his mother's property of Balcornio, Fifeshire. of eminence. He became an advocate 5 Dec. 1772. In 1 777 [Gent. Mag. (new series), xxxix. 667; Athe- he published a satirical paper, called an * Es- say on Nothing,' read before the iispum for 1853, i. 353 ; Brit. Mus. Cat. ; Ar- Speculative nold's Few AVords in Answer to the Attack on Society, and made himself unpopular by his my Classical School Books (1853).] S. L. L. sarcasms. In 1779 he published his ' History of Edinburgh ' (a second edition appeared in DELAFIELD ARNOLD, WILLIAM 1817), and in 1785 a ' Collection of Celebrated (182&-18o9), Anglo-Indian official and no- Criminal Trials in Scotland.' Both works velist, the second son of Thomas Arnold, were pirated in Ireland. He published the D.D., was born at Laleham, 7 April 1828, second at his OAvn expense in defiance of the and was educated at Rugby. lie was Edinburgh booksellers, and the gross proceeds elected a student of Christ Cliurch, Oxford, were 600/. His books shoAv reading and in 1847, and in the following year proceeded shrewdness. He became prematurely old to India as ensign in the 58th regiment of from asthma, and his irritability and caustic native infantry. lie soon became an assistant language hindered his success at the bar. commissioner in the Punjab, and in 1856 Many anecdotes are told of his eccentricity. was appointed by Sir John Lawrence director He Avrote many papers on local politics, op- of public instruction. The department Avas posed local taxation, and is said to have re- new, and its organisation fell entirely upon tarded for ten years the erection of the South Arnold, who, after much invaluable service, Bridge in Edinburgh. He died 20 Nov. 1786, Avas obliged to quit India on sick leave, and and left eight children. He was a favourite died at Gibraltar on his Avay home, 9 April, subject Avith John Kay, the Edinburgh cari- 1859. His Avife, Frances Anne, daughter of caturist, who took full advantage of the ex- Major-general Hodgson, had died shortly treme slimness of his figure. before in India. Their joint memories are cele- [Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, with biographic brated by his brother MattheAV in ' ASouthern sketches, Nos. v, viii,lxvi, cxxxii, and pp. 16, 25, Night,' one of the most beautiful memorial 157, 324, ed. 1877 ; Anderson's Scottish Nation.] poems in our language. Arnold's name is further perpetuated by an annual distribution ARNOT, WILLIAM (1808-1875), of medals, bearing his likeness, to the best preacher and theological writer, was bom at pupils in the schools AA'hich he founded, pro- Scone, where his father was a farmer, 6 Nov. vided from a fund subscribed by his felloAV- 1808. In early life he was apprenticed to a ;: Arnot Arnott ' gardener ; but the deep impression made on 1. Life of James Halley.' 2. ' The Race for his mind by the death of a religiously minded Riches, and some of the Pits into which the brother led him to study for the ministry. In Runners fall : six lectures applying the Word his university career in Glasgow he gained dis- of God to the traffic of man. It liad a wide tinction in spite of his poverty, especially in circulation both in this countiy and America, the Greek classes. He had for classfellows two as following up the principles of Chalmers's men, whose biographies he afterwards wrote ' Commercial Discourses.' 3. ' The Drunkard's James Ilalley, Avho died quite early, and Progi-ess, being a panorama of the overland James Hamilton, afterAvards minister of the route from the station of Drouth to the gene- National Scotch Church in Kegent Square, ral terminus in the Dead Sea, in a series of London. Arnot was of an honest, joyous, thirteen views, drawn and engraved by John unconventional, hearty nature, with a dash of Adam, the descriptions given by John Bun- originality almost amounting to eccentricity. yan, junior.' 4. ' Laws from Heaven for Life AVriting to his father he revealed the true on Earth ; Illustrations of the Book of Pro- ' secret of his character : I love, in a greater verbs.' 2 vols. This was one of his most or less degi-ee, every person whom I know, characteristic and successful books, treating and also all that I do not know ; and this is of the maxims of Hebrew wisdom viewed from one gi-and source of my happiness.' a christian standpoint in the nineteenth cen- Soon after completing liis theological tury. 5. * Roots and Fruits of the Christian studies he was called, in 1838, to be minister Life.' 6. 'The Parables of our Lord.' 7. 'Life of St. Peter's Church in Glasgow, one of the of James Hamilton, D.D.' 8. ' This Present new churches built under the extension World.' Some thoughts on the adaptation of scheme of Dr. Chalmers. He soon became man's home to the tenant. 9. A posthumous one of the most popular ministers of the city. volume of sermons. His ministry, which after 1843 was car- [Autobiography, with Memoir by his daugli- ried on in connection with the Free Church, ter, 1877.] W. G. B. was marked by an intense love of nature, united with a poetical temperament ; by sym- ARNOTT, GEORGE ARNOTT pathy with young men ; by ardent advocacy WALKER (1799-1868), botanist, was born of temperance, and a strong appreciation of at Edinburgh, 6 Feb. 1799. His early years ethical Christianity. He strongly sympa- were spent at Edenshead and Arlary, on thised with all movements fitted to advance the borders of Fife and Bjnross ; in 1807 the welfare of the working class. he went to Edinburgh, entering the univer- In the year 1863, on the appointment of sity in 1813, where he took his A.M. degree Dr. Rainy to a professorship, Arnot was in 1818. He studied for the law, and was called to be minister of one of the leading admitted to the faculty of advocates in congregations of the Free Church in Edin- 1821 ; but the profession was uninteresting burgh, where for the last ten years of his life to him, and he soon abandoned it. His at- he was a conspicuous figure. During that tention some three or four years previously time he edited a monthly religious magazine, had been turned to botany, and to this called the ' Family Treasuiy.' He thrice study he now devoted himself, becoming visited America : in 1845, to render important acquainted with Wight and Greville, and ministerial service in the dominion of Canada a little later with Dr. (afterwards Sir Wil- in 1870 as a delegate from the Free Church liam) Hooker. In 1821 he went to France, of Scotland to congratulate the presbyterian where he worked in the Paris herbaria, churches in the northern states on their happy and published two papers on mosses. He reunion; and for the third time, in 1873, as afterwards visited Spain and Russia, and, on a member of the Evangelical Alliance, to at- his return to Scotland, man-ied in 1831 Miss tend its meetings at New York. Having Mary Hay Barclay, of Paris, Perthshire. From been a steady sympathiser with the northern 1830 to 1840 he was engaged with Sir Wil- states and the anti-slavery movement, he was liam Hooker upon an account of the plants received in the United States with extra- collected in Captain Beechey's voyage to the ordinary cordiality.